Scouting For Girls: 'Heartbeat'

With a number one album and two top ten singles under their belts, Scouting For Girls seem to have cornered the market in piano-led indie-pop. New single 'Heartbeat' is a familiar-sounding offering about a girl who's "up for a laugh" but, frustratingly for frontman Roy Stride, a "pain in the arse" too. It's a pleasant enough listen, with a nicely buoyant chorus, but it does sound almost exactly like their previous single, and the one before it.

At this stage in the game, it's time to start asking questions: how long can Scouting For Girls push this factory-line indie sound before their fans tire of it? There's something refreshing about an indie band this free of cynicism, especially one who shoot for catchy summer anthems over introspection and shoe-gazing. However, Scouting For Girls will have to show a little more diversity if they want to match the success of current "soft rock" kings The Feeling.


> Click here to watch the 'Heartbeat' video